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Son of the Morning Star : Custer and the Little Bighorn

Son of the Morning Star : Custer and the Little Bighorn Hardcover - 1982

by Evan S. Connell

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Son of the Morning Star : Custer and the Little Bighorn
  • Author Evan S. Connell
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 441
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, San Francisco
  • Date 1982
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0865471606I5N01
  • ISBN 9780865471603 / 0865471606
  • Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.4 in (23.88 x 16.51 x 3.56 cm)
  • Reading level 1170
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84060681
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About this book

In Son of the Morning Star, Mr. Connell explores deeply the personalities of Custer and the other federal and Indian leaders. Custer, seen by some as a hero, by others as the cause of the defeat, was an enigmatic and extravagant figure, fearless in battle and sentimental in repose. It is said that on first seeing through field glasses the more than four miles of Allied Indian camps, he exclaimed, "hurrah, boys, we've got them!" Disregarding a Cheyenne warning, Custer rode to his death--and led to death every man of the Seventh Cavalry who followed him. A foolish miscalculation ended the life of the man the Indians called "Son of the Morning Star." The story is told that after the battle a squaw drove a sewing awl through his ear and into his skull so that he might hear better in the next world.